Albert Welford Castleman Jr. (January 7, 1936 – February 28, 2017) was an American physicist and chemist who was the Eberly Family Distinguished Chair of Science at

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. He was elected member of the

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and fellow of the

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, both in 1998. In 2010, Castleman was awarded the Irving Langmuir Award.

External links

The Castleman Group
at The Pennsylvania State University

References

1936 births 2017 deaths American physicists American chemists Pennsylvania State University faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences {{US-scientist-stub